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Connecting dots makes ‘bits’…

Posted on February 16, 2017 by David Filippone

I’ve read some interesting and provocative books and articles lately about our political leaders and policies, some hugely complimentary and some strikingly derogatory… lots of deducing and speculation on both sides of the spectrum vaticinating from prosperity to disaster. The … Continue reading →

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Promise of Spring…

Posted on February 7, 2017 by David Filippone

The ‘promise of Spring’ is really a hope and a prayer, there are no guarantees in linear time as much as we like to pretend there are. Plans we make… do they ever really turn out ‘exactly’ the way we … Continue reading →

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Small World…

Posted on February 3, 2017 by David Filippone

Where do we look to discover our habitual patterns…beginnings? At the boundaries? One beginning might be the dawn of a new day, or even at the end of an old thought, when the new one begins… ‘A small world‘…mind universe … Continue reading →

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The Humble Moment…

Posted on December 7, 2016 by David Filippone

THE HUMBLE MOMENT… The Space in which the sound just occupied…open now…blue as can be…as far as listening can see. The prior of touch, the essence of ‘feel’…I am this… THE BLUES By Ken McKeon Think on the sound that’s … Continue reading →

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Rest in the Ripple…

Posted on October 23, 2016 by David Filippone

Rest in the Ripple… In ‘Dimensions of Mind’, p.212, there is a pointing out instruction how to “focus each ripple, each point, back toward its own transitions…the more you penetrate the ripples…the more you can stay there.” Rinpoche refines, “It’s … Continue reading →

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Presence…the humble moment

Posted on September 17, 2016 by David Filippone

Talk about a bubble of your own projections…I have imagined… What if I sold the house, bought a live-in R V and traveled the continent. I envisioned the fabulous places this country, Canada, and southern countries might offer. Dreams of … Continue reading →

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Positions…

Posted on June 22, 2016 by David Filippone

Arguments are tiresome, particularly political ones. Election campaigns make me feel like I’m being water boarded. News outlets are relentless with opinion coverage, and it bleeds into the population. Friends, relatives, even acquaintances want to know where I stand, and … Continue reading →

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The Center of the Pool

Posted on June 9, 2016 by David Filippone

In class we’ve been exploring what’s at the center of experience…a controlling self? A knowing space presence…? It is a fascinating probe, a view into the depths of the pool of perception. It seems that stories give shape, form, and … Continue reading →

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Consider the Present Ripens from the Future

Posted on June 5, 2016 by David Filippone

In class we were considering ‘field dynamics’, which from a TSK perspective suggests…as science tells us, ‘everything is made of fields’. Keeping that in mind as we employ our normal way of knowing, (subject engages an object), ‘I encounter things’…but … Continue reading →

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Time-skimming…

Posted on May 21, 2016 by David Filippone

In class, we’ve been investigating how the mind actively constructs in each moment, and noticing that no construct is ever completely finished. When we are aware of the activity of minding that builds each structure, our perceptions do not have … Continue reading →

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